A Researcher Is Using Adult Stem Cells and Comparing Them

question 19

Multiple Choice

A researcher is using adult stem cells and comparing them to other adult cells from the same tissue.Which of the following statements describes a likely finding of this research?

• A)The cells from the two sources exhibit different patterns of DNA methylation.
• B)Adult stem cells have more DNA nucleotides than their counterparts.
• C)The two kinds of cells have virtually identical gene expression patterns in microarrays.
• D)The non-stem cells have fewer repressed genes.

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